Texas v. Alabama February 25-27, 2022

[FWHORN]

This was a nice series sweep but lets not read too much into it. Bama is a middle of the standings SEC team that will be a bubble at best tournament team, Next week with Tennessee, LSU and UCLA on tap will give the Horns a true early season test. This Texas team is a really good team and regardless of what happens next weekend its still a really good team, but the results next weekend will be among those important ones you rack up in March for late in the year when the national seeds are being determined. Texas overcame a lost weekend in Arlington last year to still be the number two national seed so next weekend is not make or break but it is a critical early season test and will tell us a lot about where Texas is three weeks into the year.

 

[Chop]

This was a nice series sweep but lets not read too much into it. Bama is a middle of the standings SEC team that will be a bubble at best tournament team, Next week with Tennessee, LSU and UCLA on tap will give the Horns a true early season test. This Texas team is a really good team and regardless of what happens next weekend its still a really good team, but the results next weekend will be among those important ones you rack up in March for late in the year when the national seeds are being determined. Texas overcame a lost weekend in Arlington last year to still be the number two national seed so next weekend is not make or break but it is a critical early season test and will tell us a lot about where Texas is three weeks into the year.

Yeah, LSU usually has some really good bats. Don't know much about little UT or UCLA, but I like that we have some good pre-conference competition. I figure that our pitching staff will almost always keep us in the game. Sometimes they'll flat out win the game (1-0, 2-0, 2-1, etc.). Other times, if we can just get 3-4 runs, we'll win. And a decent college offense should usually be able to get 3-4 runs. On rare occasion, we'll get lit up, and it will be all up to the offense.

 

[mchammer]

What I see is no sluggishness from the loss to Miss St last year. It’s like they took a 2 week break and started ball again. No team starts like that. I think they will do well next week.

 

[Phil Elliott]

This was a nice series sweep but lets not read too much into it.

OK, but Bama was 5-0 coming in so they weren't dogmeat. Giving up 1 run in 3 games is dang good no matter who you are playing. Maybe we should have been able to hit them better, but it was so dang cold most of the time I cannot say whether or not we need to improve offensively. You are correct we will know more after this next weekend.

 

[mchammer]

OK, but Bama was 5-0 coming in so they weren't dogmeat. Giving up 1 run in 3 games is dang good no matter who you are playing. Maybe we should have been able to hit them better, but it was so dang cold most of the time I cannot say whether or not we need to improve offensively. You are correct we will know more after this next weekend.

A lot of outs were hard hit balls to the outfield.

Recall the SO plague last year? We haven’t suffered that this year. Let’s see what happens this weekend.

 

[aUTfan]

A lot of outs were hard hit balls to the outfield.

Recall the SO plague last year? We haven’t suffered that this year. Let’s see what happens this weekend.

What I think is bad about being ranked #1 is that we will see every teams absolute best the whole season, each team wants to beat them and is going to play lights out, example number one and two are the first two games in this series. Even though it was cold, their top two pitchers kept us in check.

I'm expecting a loss to LSU Saturday for that reason, hopefully we go 2-1 over the weekend, UCLA looks weak, I think Hansen gets the job done Friday, I think Stevens pitches well Saturday but think that the LSU bats coupled with their hyped up pitchers and opportunity to knock off the #1 team will be really difficult to overcome early in the season. However, its going to be an epic battle and I can't wait, Obviously I hope they beat LSU, payback for the title game in 2009.